Kevin Carnahan
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BlurryFace :
I’ll never hear a bad thing said about Hannah Fry 👀
2026-07-29 15:05:33
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🌻🌻🐈Nathanael-Enjay🐈⬛️🌻🌻 :
I have followed Michael for over a decade at this point, and I am sure he would not spread misinformation intentionally. I've only known about Hannah since they started this podcast, but I'm pretty certain she's the same way. I'd bet that if you reach out to them they would start a dialog on this.
2026-07-29 16:54:25
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zendayasshots :
it's also an WILD misreading of Augustine and Aquinas if you know even a smidgen about their works. so much of epistemology and modern philosophy are descended from their works, so it's genuinely ignorant of them to ever claim that two of the most influential philosophers would ever shun intellectual curiosity like that.
2026-07-29 15:29:42
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Aaronstotle :
They also get science wrong CONSTANTLY.
2026-07-29 17:47:32
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jiiii :
I mean, the terminology is wrong but the idea is right. Look what happened to Galileo and Copernicus, and they were the ones that pushed for knowledge of God through the natural world and observation. Religion promoted curiosity as long as it fit the worldview they wanted it to fit. Even today, the greatest opposition to science is generally going to be religiously backed organizations. I have no hate towards religion, in fact I appreciate it and love learning about it, but you can just correct them on the terminology without addressing the grander idea that religion oppressed science for a very long time. It also pushed science forward at times, but it was never neutral towards it.
2026-07-29 21:24:49
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itsryder :
i'm loving your vids but is there any position you do agree with?
2026-07-29 15:16:53
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Simon Neil Scott :
Blimey, never thought I would see Hannah Fry on the receiving end of your correction (rightly).... 😳
2026-07-29 19:38:45
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rydog :
well I certainly don't like your tone 🤨 tris are great, just correct them politely
2026-07-30 10:53:18
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SamsIsaac :
Allow me to defend their ignorance abit (and it’s not because I’m a huge fan of Hanna fry) I think scientists in general are more inclined to believe a teleological view of history ; that society in general has been progressive getting better and better (which is similar to your argument) it’s of course very ahistorical (as any historian will explain, human agency and complexity cannot be reduced to some lines on a graph pointing upwards) but these scientists use that misconception in a positive way, to show how society can become better if we prioritise certain ways of thinking (the scientific evidence based kind that systemizes the collection of knowledge, itself driven by curiosity). This kind of thinking may not have been useful for the advancement of ancient societies, which were organized around different principles but it’s certainly true for our modern society that’s technology and science driven. In summary; it’s a mostly harmless misconception . Go easy on them 🙏
2026-07-29 15:14:46
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Faruk Ahmet :
I usually watch (and enjoy) their podcast but I don't remember this one. I doubt Hannah reads Aquinas on her free time (though, who knows) so I really wonder where she got this interpretation from? Even if you don't know their work intimately, it's pretty weird to so easily assume that a radical thinker and system builder like Aquinas would be as much a cantankerous conservative as to forbid curiosity altogether, just because he lived a long time ago.
2026-07-29 15:59:21
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ghostieszs :
Best of luck on this one. I agree, but I think some people are going to have some cognitive dissonance to deal with.
2026-07-29 15:03:40
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Thomas Wisdom, Ph.D. :
Good one Kevin, they weren't curious enough!🥰🥰🥰
2026-07-29 16:16:20
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DJ :
damn vsauce?😭
2026-07-29 17:20:23
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Late-Blooming Gaeilgeoir :
It’s wild that there’s this broadly accepted idea of the church in the Iron Age and medieval period as somehow oppositional to knowledge and education when it was literally the centre of those things.
2026-07-29 16:30:15
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Caesarp 631 :
Good insights but your initial claim about their intentions and modernist schemes is not well founded and unnecessary. Just point our what’s wrong will ya?
2026-07-30 00:04:14
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AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaAA :
To ancient catholics studying the world was another way of getting closer to God
2026-07-30 02:44:49
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Samuel Macdonald :
I have found in general that The Rest Is Science chooses the smoothness of a fun fact over precision and accuracy - I shouldn't get too mad at a podcast for not being precisely what I want it to be, but they could be going through scientific papers in detail and improving the audiences literacy in the scientific method in that way, or going on detailed series about topics like relativity in a medium depth that sits between a degree-level course with heavy mathematics and the hand-wavy explainers of which there are ten a penny. Instead it's "did you know" and "this study says (and therefore it's true)"
2026-08-24 08:25:48
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Kal :
if nobody was curious before modernity, how did we get modernity. do they think it just like.... poofed Into existance and now there's cars and phones lol
2026-07-30 04:38:35
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Clay :
curiosity can make man made horrors
2026-07-30 13:37:32
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MC879 :
This is very common when someone becomes fluent in one scientific field, they think it gives them the green light to talk about anything and everything with authority.
2026-07-30 22:17:58
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😊 :
Oh no, this is bad news for me (a very nosy person) 😂
2026-07-29 20:06:25
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CharnelKing1 :
please tell gallileo that they are "entirly wrong"
2026-08-11 20:11:42
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